By offering the suite for free, the company is hoping to populate the
entrenched worldwide marketplace occupied by such big players as Microsoft, Lotus, and Corel, and to win more than 10 million new
StarOffice users by January 1, 2000.

Star Division is selling the
other two commercial editions of its office suite to the public. For $39.95,
customers can get a hold of StarOffice
5.0 Personal Edition Deluxe which includes the Product CD-ROM, a collection
of templates, clip art, Web graphics, and more than 250 fonts. Customers can also
buy StarOffice 5.0 Professional Edition for $169, with a five-person license--Small Business License--for $499, the company said.

Star Division was founded in 1985 in Hamburg, Germany. The company recently
moved its headquarters to Fremont, California and plans to go public on
Nasdaq in 1999.

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